Tea Industry In Sri Lanka

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take a look on our topic with cup of "tea"....😍😄😄😚..

Tea industry starts

The East India Company brought Tamil women from Southern India to work as tea pluckers, ushering in the next chapter of human suffering on these lush green acres.

By 1890, the year Thomas Lipton arrived to purchase tea estates, 23,000 tons of tea were exported to London's tea auctions. Ceylon had become an island synonymous with tea.

Ceylon won independence from British rule in 1948 but the tea industry remained a colonial domain

The leaves that go into a cup of Ceylon tea play a surprisingly complex role in the history of Sri lanka...

Sri Lanka is blessed with diverse climatic conditions and our pioneer tea planters realized the effect on these diverse conditions on tea production.

Sri Lanka's top  tea experiences

Dilmah Private Tea Tastings

Euphorium Tea Salon

Ceylon Tea Trails

Handunugoda Tea Estate

Some facts about Sri lankan tea industry....

•    Sri Lanka has over 188,000 hectares under tea cultivation yielding about 298,000 tonnes of "made" tea, and accounting for more than 19% of world exports.
•  In 1972, the island then known as Ceylon reverted to the traditional name of Sri Lanka, but retained the brand name of Ceylon for the marketing of its teas.
•  The teas produced from these districts are referred to by Tea Trade as teas from “ Dimbula, Uva, Nuwara Eliya, Uda Pussellawa, Kandy and Ruhuna”which some famous for the breathtaking water falls..

Grades of Tea
Ceylon tea is divided into various grades. These grade names are an indication of size or appearance of manufactured leaf and not of its quality.

• BOP - Well-made, neat leaf of medium size without excessive stalk or fiber. There should not be any fine particles (fannings and dust) which are not true-to-grade.  ( BOP Sp,BOPF,BOP 1 )
• FBOP - Smaller/shorter than BOP1 with presence of tips, but larger than FBOPF1.   (FBOP 1)
•  PEKOE - Shotty, curly or semi-cirly leaf of large size of any elevation. (PEKOE1)
•  FBOPF (FF) - Similar in size to BOP……… and must contain tips.(FBOPF 1 (FF1),FBOPF,FBOPF Ex. Sp,FBOPF Ex. Sp1)
• BM (BROKENS) ,BT ,FNGS 1 ,FNGS,DUST1 ,DUST ,SILVER TIPS,GOLDEN TIPS ,BP1 ,BP Special,PF 1 ,OF ,PF,PD ,DUST 1 
• DUST - (Off Grades) – Inferior to Dust 1. Could be powdery and fibry.
  

                                                                            

Sri Lanka in Style's Hosted Tea Journey

"To understand this ancient medicine called tea" noted tea explorer and author Jeff Fuchs will lead an inaugural series of journeys this July among the cultures and landscapes that shaped Sri Lanka's tea story.

In Sri lanka the low country tea bushes and meet the resident pluckers but the intense flavor of the black tea produced here means most is exported to Russia and Iraq.
The former finds their chief markets in South America, and to a lesser degree in North Africa and a few North African countries. The latter is mostly popular in the Middle East, particularly Iran. Few of the up-country estates make these grades at all. Their stable lines are BOP and BOPF such as are dominant in Britain, Australia and South Africa.
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